Steve Warner (born May 24, 1978) is a retired American rower who won a world title in 2000 in the lightweight eights. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where his team placed ninth in the lightweight coxless four.Warner graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor of science degree in cellular and molecular biology. After that he abandoned his studies for four years to compete in rowing and work at Bristol-Myers Squibb as a research associate. He then retired from rowing and enrolled to a PhD program in cell biology and physiology at the Washington University in St. Louis.